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New Homes To Be Primed For Broadband
News Builders could be forced to make all new homes broadband-friendly by installing cable ducts and chambers into the fabric of the building if government proposals published earlier this month become law.
[March 24, 2003, 16:47]
News Burst: Kids Appeal For New Homes Via Net
News Six children, ranging from two to ten years old, made a direct appeal for new homes from the pages of Derbyshire County Council's Web site. The council hopes this move will prompt more people who are thinking about adoption to get in touch.
[October 14, 1999, 11:01]
Cisco Wireless Solution From Coleman Technologies Accelerates Construction Of New Homes
White Papers More than 1000 homes are under construction at any given time. The Villages, located in Olcala, Florida, is a rapidly growing active retirement community offering sun, warm weather, and upscale amenities to its community.
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Baby Bell Collaboration Helps Home Fibre
News BellSouth, SBC Communications and Verizon are reaching new levels of cooperation as they begin building fibre-optic networks directly to homes and offices. The carriers plan to use these higher-speed connections to homes and offices to sell new...
[May 30, 2003, 10:29]
Children Up For Adoption Online
News Six children, ranging from two to ten years old, made a direct appeal for new homes from the pages of Derbyshire County Council's Web site. Chambers believes it is too early to say how successful Net-based adoption campaigns will be but already...
[October 14, 1999, 13:13]
Comdex 2001: 802.11a Puts Wireless In The Fast Lane
News Reflecting the growing demand for Net connections anywhere, some of the leading networking companies plan to unveil new technology for people to communicate wirelessly in their homes and workplaces. The 802.11b standard has gained an early foothold...
[November 12, 2001, 15:04]
NHS Planning Major Telehealth Rollout
News Speaking to industry figures at a symposium on IT and healthcare in London, Granger also confirmed that "things going into people's homes is new scope", requiring additional budgeting beyond the original remit of the NHS's National Programme for IT.
[January 24, 2007, 17:12]
Wi-Fi Connections Tipped To Fly
News An estimated 50 million homes in Europe, the United States and Asia will have Wi-Fi connections by 2007, according to new data released on Wednesday. The growth of home Wi-Fi will spur the demand for new services and may also drive an increase of...
[January 8, 2004, 13:55]
Ofcom Seeks To Speed Up UK Fibre Rollout
News While BT is fitting the first networks, Ofcom says the new regulatory proposals will encourage widespread investment in fibre networks for the 246,000 homes and businesses built in Britain each year. Fibre-optic networks will serve new homes at...
[April 17, 2008, 8:43]
Comdex: Digital Home? Not Quite...
News The 60-employee company installs high-bandwidth wiring and "wiring closets" in new homes. But first, the bad news: Digital homes will be slow in coming. Well, Bill Gates has one," said Gerry Kaufhold, an analyst at technology watcher In-Stat, who...
[November 16, 1998, 7:18]
Broadband Adoption Set To Surge
News The number of US homes with a broadband connection is likely to grow by 8.5 million, to 33.5 million, households by the end of 2004, according to new data released on Thursday. That would put broadband access in about 31 percent of all households...
[April 30, 2004, 9:30]
It's Door-to-door ISP Selling!
News Dorling Kindersley will employ 10,000 'DK advisors' to visit homes, offices and schools throughout the UK in a move reminiscent of the lipstick selling sales force of the 1970s. Distribution is certainly one of the major issues but for people still...
[October 14, 1999, 14:21]
Courts To Pilot E-payment System
News Courts minister Christopher Leslie said: "With this new service court users will not have to leave their homes to fill in and submit commonly used county court forms. They can do this in the comfort of their own homes or at some locations where...
[January 6, 2005, 13:55]
Tech Leaders Team Up On Home-network Standard
News The four leading chip and electronics makers will help market and test a standard to wire together computers, TVs and entertainment systems using electricity, phone and coaxial cable lines that already exist in most homes, they said on Tuesday.
[April 30, 2008, 8:19]
Chipset Brings Fibre Closer To Homes
News Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an integrated chipset that it says will make it easier and less expensive for carriers to bring fibre access to homes and small businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
Gates Wants A Server In Every Home
News Having helped get PCs into people's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server. Homes with multiple PCs will find it very attractive. As you get a product that's, say, well under $1,000 (£517.75), viewed as just dead simple to use, I...
[January 8, 2007, 7:25]
Nanoparticle Research Blows Open New Possibilities
News Nanotechnology specialist QuantumSphere has developed technology that eventually could help heat homes -- or blow them up. This shift could lead to cheaper hydrogen fuel cells for homes and cars in the growing alternative-energy market.
[October 22, 2004, 12:15]
Why Fast Access Is Stuck In The Slow Lane
News International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that one in three American homes will surf the Net over a high-speed connection by 2003. The development of cable modems, digital subscriber lines (DSL), ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and...
[January 25, 2000, 13:11]
Microsoft Takes Its Own Path With Next-gen Wi-Fi
News There are between 15 million and 30 million 802.11b networks in homes and offices worldwide, and the technology is gaining momentum in the UK. The low cost of the equipment has helped cause an explosion in use in both homes and offices, analysts say.
[June 11, 2002, 9:12]
Alcatel-Lucent Has Potential, But Dangers Too
News And last week, Lucent announced that it would install its remote terminal devices in Qwest's new neighbourhood cabinets for 2.5 million homes. SBC announced a plan to build thousands of neighbourhood nodes, connecting homes and businesses via a...
[May 29, 2001, 10:47]
